American Decades
"This Is My Task"
Sermon
By: Aimee Semple McPherson
Date: March 12, 1939
Source: McPherson, Aimee Semple. "This Is My Task." Sermon delivered at Angelus Temple, Los Angeles, March 12, 1939. Transcript available online at http://www.libertyharbor.org/sermon.htm; website home page: http://www.libertyharbor.org (accessed February 12, 2003).
About the Author: American evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944), a popular preacher in the 1920s and 1930s, was a nonbeliever until the age of 17 when she met a Scottish evangelist, Robert Semple, who helped to convert her. They married in 1908 and he died shortly after. In 1913 she married Harold S. McPherson. Five years later that marriage ended in divorce and McPherson began her life as a lay—untrained and unordained—evangelist and conducted many...
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1930's Religion Primary Sources
- Cochran v. Louisiana State Board of Education
- Casti Connubii
- Roosevelt and/or Ruin
- Letter to the Nation's Clergy and Their Responses
- "Pacifism"
- Divini Redemptoris
- "The Guiding Principles of Reform Judaism"
- "Civilizations Have Perished"
- "Coughlin, the Jews, and Communism"
- Federal Writers' Project Interviews on Religion
- A Guide to Understanding the Bible
- "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism"
- "This Is My Task"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
